The aim of the study was to analyze the temporal variation in the occurrence of overweight and abdominal obesity in adolescentspublic schools in a capital in northeastern Brazil. This is a study including informationthree cross-sectional surveys carr...
The text addresses the sociability circuits of ‘men who have sex with men’ in the Metropolitan Region of Recife during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2020, with the arrival of the epidemic in Brazil, a first movement was charac...
In this article, conflicts involving pharmacists and doctors are presented, especially those linked to the Inspectorate of Hygiene, in the city of Salvador in the last decade of the 19th century, a topic that has not yet been addressed by historiogra...
This article focuses on the perception of nursing as a low-prestige occupation in the 19th century. The history of nursing produced by professionals in the area reinforced this conception. However, the profile of the enfermeiro-mor (head nurse) posit...
This article aims at dealing with three public health concerns of the nineteenth century in São Paulo to demonstrate that the major legislative milestones or important epidemics of the period – treated as decisive by historiography – had little ...
Pediatric cancer survivors constitute a growing population. The disease suffered, its treatment or the occurrence of late complications may affect their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Understanding HRQOL is a challenge due to its conceptual ...
This article presents a synchronic analysis of the diseases that were present during the emergence of COVID-19, the management and impact of lockdown; and analyses how the media narrated these phenomena in working-class neighborhoods of the Metropoli...
Objective: to identify the profile of police officers (PO) operated on as a result of gunshot wounds to the face, the anatomical distribution of the injuries and to know the repercussions on the health, work and family relationships of the PO. Method...
